The Mind Altering Trip of The Acid Tests is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by The Merry Pranksters with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.591 billion Acid Testsians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Haight-Ashbury. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Acid Testsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,653 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 172,416 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The entire entry for The Acid Tests in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, and the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit. Crime is totally unknown. The Acid Tests's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The League For Spiritual Discovery.

The Acid Tests is ranked 287,534^th in the world and 44^th in Hippy Haven for Most Armed, with 0.13 weapons per person.